VNC and RDP 5.0 (Windows 2003) incompatabilities

[James Weatherall]

The problem described is only an issue if the session being remoted by VNC
is a TS session - this is often the case with the console session when Fast
User Switching or Remote Desktop are used under XP.

Under 2K3, running a User-Mode VNC Server process inside a TS session and
then disconnecting the TS session is the way to see the problem.  VNC Server
in Service-Mode will happily remote the console session of 2K3 regardless of
whether or not TS is used for other sessions.

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
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> myron_in_da_house "at" yahoo.co.uk
> Sent: 08 August 2004 12:54
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: VNC and RDP 5.0 (Windows 2003) incompatabilities 
> 
> I'm following this thread, but I'm missing something.
> 
> I'm operating Windows 2003 standard server (two of them) on 
> the Intranet and I don't have any problems running an RDP 
> session and a VNC session at the same time.
> 
> Mind you, I'm operating TS in administration mode on the 
> server.  Maybe the people suffering from the RDP/VNC issues 
> are running TS in licensed mode?
> 
> At 21:40 03/08/2004, Stewart Castaldi wrote:
> >I second this.  I first encountered this problem after 
> upgrading from VNC 3.3.7 to VNC 4.0.  Downgrading back to VNC 
> 3.3.7 did not correct the problem.  There is definitely an 
> interaction between RDP and VNC on Windows 2003 boxes which 
> render VNC pretty much unusable unless you don't use RDP.
> >-- 
> >Stewart Castaldi                  Fred Hutchinson Cancer 
> Research Center
> >Email: scastald "at" fhcrc.org         1100 Fairview Ave. N., MS: J4-300
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